ORESTES A. BROWNSON,

COLLECTED AND ARRANGED

BY

HENRY F. BROWNSON.

VOLUME XVIII.

CONTAINING TIE FOURTH PART OF THE POLITICAL WRITINGS.

DETROIT:
THORNDIKE NOURSE, PUBLISHER.

1885.

THE AMERICAN Republic-PREFACE, . . . . . 1

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION, . . . . . .

II. GOVERNMENT, . . . . . 13 V

.. III. ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT, . . . . 18

“ IV. ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT-CONTINUED, . 27

V. ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT—CONTINUED,

VI. ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT-CONCLUDED, .

" VII. CONSTITUTION OF GOVERNMENT, .

. 74

VIII. CONSTITUTION OF GOVERNMENT-CONCLUDED, 88

" IX. THE UNITED STATES. . . . . 100

X. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES . 113

XI. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES—Con.

CLUDED, .

. . . 126

• XII. SECESSION, . . . . . . . 142

" XIII. RECONSTRUCTION, . . . . . . 158

" XIV. POLITICAL TENDENCIES, . . . . 177

. XV. DESTINY-POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS, . . 199

THE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLE, . . . . . . . 223

CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTIES, . . . . . . . 246

THE EXECUTIVE POWER, . .

. . . . 269

THE NATIVE AMERICANS, . . . . . . . . 281

THE KNOW.NOTHINGS—ARTICLE I, .

II, .

338

- III, .

357

THE WOMAN QUESTION-ARTICLE I, .

381

" II, . . . . . 398

THE ROMAN QUESTION, . . . . . . . . 418

SARDINIA AND ROME,

SARDINIA AND THE HOLY FATHER, .

445

RECENT EVENTS IN EUROPE,

THE RECENT EVENTS IN FRANCE,

481

EUROPEAN POLITICS,

THE POLITICAL STATE OF THE COUNTRY . . . . . 520

AT HOME AND ABROAD, .

. . . 535

THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK, . . .

. . . 546

THE OUTLOOK AT HOME AND ABROAD, . i .

562

HOME POLITICS,

•

. . 574

300